The first two or three years that I attempted to talk in
the meetings, I saw that the older people did not like it. I had sense enough to
know that I was a bore to them. "Well, I went out upon the street and I got
eighteen little children to follow me the first Sunday, and I led them into the
Sunday-school. I found that I had something to do. I was encouraged, and I kept
at that work. And if I am worth anything to the Christian church to-day, it is
as much due to that work as anything else. I could not explain these Scriptural
passages to them, for I did not then comprehend them, but I could tell them
stories; I could tell them that Christ loved them, and that He died for them. I
did the best I could. I used the little talent I had, and God kept giving me
more talents, and so, let me say, find some work. See if you can get a
Sabbath-school to teach. If you cannot get that, go down into the dark lanes and
byways of the city and talk to them and sing some gospel hymns; or, if you
cannot sing, take some one with you that can sing some of these songs of praise.
Sing or read the twenty-third psalm, or pray, and you can get a blessing in that
way. When you have won one soul to Christ, you will want to win two, and when
you get into the luxury of winning souls it will be a new world to you, and you
will not think of going back to the world at all.